Once again Arizona appears to have committed harakiri, falling on its sword in order to save the world from an exercise in human rights. We’re a self-sacrificing state, so we’ve done this twice before. The first time was in 1987, when Governor Evan Mecham canceled an Executive Order by Bruce Babbitt making Martin Luther King’s birthday a state holiday. All the other states were celebrating this holiday, but I guess Mecham, a former car dealer, was so afraid of the slain Negro civil rights leader’s power that he thought Arizona needed protection from black people who might invade the state if we celebrated that day.
What really gets to me is the absence of the responsibility of men to assume their role of fathering a child! They Should they be legally responsible to financially provide for the child until age 18 and the mother!/ or child care. All that I see on tv is old men opinionating about abortion rights or wrongs.
Francine, the Az. Supreme Court followed the law and the law was that abortions were illegal. Was the law arcane unfair and just down right stupid? Yes. But it was the law and enforceable until the legislature could have and should have, changed it, but refused to do. It's all on the legislature.
And we know that the Az. legislature, when given the opportunity, will almost always do the wrong thing.
I predict consequences.
What really gets to me is the absence of the responsibility of men to assume their role of fathering a child! They Should they be legally responsible to financially provide for the child until age 18 and the mother!/ or child care. All that I see on tv is old men opinionating about abortion rights or wrongs.
Francine, the Az. Supreme Court followed the law and the law was that abortions were illegal. Was the law arcane unfair and just down right stupid? Yes. But it was the law and enforceable until the legislature could have and should have, changed it, but refused to do. It's all on the legislature.
And we know that the Az. legislature, when given the opportunity, will almost always do the wrong thing.
Thank you Francine. Well said.